See Also: Blastomycosis(health)
blastomycosis(medicine)
cutaneous blastomycosis(medicine)
Brazilian blastomycosis(medicine)
systemic blastomycosis(medicine)
south american blastomycosis(medicine)
North American blastomycosis(medicine)
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Blastomycosis (health)


Infection with a fungus called Blastomyces dermatitidis. The infection causes symptoms in about 50% of cases. It usually presents as a flu-like illness with fever, chills, productive cough, myalgia, arthralgia and pleuritic chest pain. Some patients fail to recover and develop chronic pulmonary infection or widespread disseminated infection (affecting the skin, bones, and genitourinary tract). It occasionally affects the meninges which cover the brain and spinal cord.